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LETTER IX. 249 



Is a general Beauty in the Works of God, and 

 *' therefore no Deformity in any kind or fpecies 

 of Creature whatfoever: I cannot tell by 

 what Logick we call a Toad, a Bear, or an 

 Elephant, ugly, they being created in thofe 

 outward fhapes and figures, which beft exprefs 

 " the Adions of their inward Forms -, and hav- 

 *' ing paffed- that general Vifitation of God, who 

 *^ faw that all that he had made was good, that 

 *' is, conformable to his Will, which abhors 

 Deformity, and is the Rule of Order and Beau- 

 ty ; there is no Deformity but in Monllrofity, 

 wherein notwithftanding there is a kind of 

 Beauty, Nature fo ingenioufly contri^^ing the 

 irregular parts, as they become fometimes 

 more remarkable, than the principal Fabrick. 

 To fpeak yet more narrowly, there never was 

 any thing ugly, or niiihapen, but the Chaos, 

 wherein notwithftanding to fpeak ftridlly, there 

 was no Deformity, becaufe no Form, nor was 

 it yet impregnate by the Voice of God : Now 

 " Nature is not at variance with Art, nor Art 

 *^ with Nature ; they being both the Servants of 

 *' his Providence: Art is the Perfed:ion of Na- 

 ^* ture : Were the World now as it was the fixth 

 " day, there were yet a Chaos: Nature hath 

 " made one World, and Art another. In brief, 

 *' all things are Artificial, for Nature is the Art 

 ^* of God." I fliould have added to the forego- 

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